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Actually it is pretty obvious

Authored by: inode_buddha on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 11:27 AM EDT

"What kind of economy is that? It's like gerbils,
where you wake up one day and mom ate her baby."

Only you could have worked that into a legal discussion re patents. And *that*
is why I love this place! ROFL good one!

---
-inode_buddha

"When we speak of free software,
we are referring to freedom, not price"
-- Richard M. Stallman

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Actually it is pretty obvious

Authored by: mrisch on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 01:02 PM EDT

I'm not convinced that software is different. I just got
done reading 5000 patents from 1790-1839 that covered
implementations that were ridiculously simple once you had
the idea, but the idea was not obvious at the time.

The Supreme Court even let Bell have the telephone for the
a-ha idea of a closed circuit and he hadn't even figured out
how to build it yet.

So, on the one hand I agree that there is a problem with
granting patents on building blocks, but I don't think
software is different in that way.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

OK, but software is still pure math. - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 01:27 PM EDT
The Aha! moment for software was the von Newmann general purpose computer. - Authored by: Ian Al on Tuesday, June 12 2012 @ 12:39 PM EDT
- The swipe path is defined by a vector in the case of the touch-pad!!! - Authored by: Ian Al on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 03:51 AM EDT

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